we begin tonight keeping them honest with the clock ticking to the iowa caucuses five days away, tonight the republican press dngs candidates are pulling out all the stops. the latest time/orc poll shows mitt romney and ron paul battling it out for the lead. rick santorum has surged into third place, more than tripling his support since the beginning of the month. newt gingrich dropped to 14%, down from 33% in early december. rick perry is at 11, michele

bachmann and john huntsman are in the single digits. bachmann is still trying to rally support. tonight doing it without the support of two high-ranking members of her team. bachmann's iowa campaign chairman, a man named state senator ken sorenson has jumped ship, going to ron paul's campaign. bachmann says sorenson is a quote sellout and said he was paid to go to the paul campaign. >> i had a conversation with kent sorenson and in the direct conversation that i had with him, he told me that he was offered money, he was offered a lot of money by the ron paul campaign to go and associate with the ron paul campaign. no one else knows about that conversation other than kent sorenson and myself. and i know what he said to me about that. >> sorenson says he went to the paul camp simply because ron paul has the best chance of beating mitt romney and president obama in his opinion. in a statement sorenson says

quote as for the ridiculous allegations that congresswoman bachmann and her surrogates have made, i was never offered money from the ron paul campaign and would never accept money. >> was money offered to you by anybody from the ron paul camp to jump ship? >> absolutely not. the fact of the matter is that i did not accept any money from the ron paul campaign. i was never offered a nickel from the ron paul campaign. >> or anybody associated with it? >> never offered a nickel. >> we don't know what conversation if any a took place between bachmann and sorenson. but tonight there's another he said/she said conflict. sorenson's decision was no no way financially motivated. wes enos former iowa political director. bachmann campaign.

who said i cannot watch kent sorenson be attacked as a sell-out. when he made that statement, enos may have planned to stay with bachmann, but tonight he, too, is gone. enos told nbc news quote it was a mutual thing, i knew when i undermined bachmann's statement last night that i was effectively tendering my resignation. you can decide who is most credible in this scenario. but bachmann's other claim is less debatable. >> we had kent sorenson's former campaign manager who told me that kent is getting money. we saw incredible momentum, including the fact that last night we had 150 new people calling us, saying they want to stand up for me in the caucuses, we had thousands over the last ten days and that caused the ron paul campaign to be very nervous, because they saw the momentum shifting here in iowa to my campaign.

so then they came up with this plan apparently to offer a lot of money to kent sorenson. >> paul has 22% of the vote in the latest poll. that's up 5% from the start of the month. let's get into the raw politics in des moines iowa. candy crowley, host of cnn's state of the union. and democratic strategist for president obama's re-election campaign and also a pollster for the president's 2008 campaign. cornell, bachmann says ron paul is losing steam in iowa, is he? >> i don't think he's losing steam at all and i quite frankly don't understand why bachmann is pushing the story. because this is a story that gets in the way of everything she wants to do. so we're spending all this time talking about people leaving her campaign as opposed to her being on message. it's bad campaigning going on. if you look at paul and santorum, they have a lot of momentum going in the closing. and as any campaign professional will tell you, you want your candidate hitting his or her

stride and gaining momentum at the end here. i wouldn't be at all surprised to see an torm or ron paul win. i think both of them have a better chance of winning than romney. >> you think ron paul or santorum have a better chance of winning than romney? >> i think they absolutely have a better chance in iowa. the caucusgoers, you're talking less than 11% of eligible voters voting in a caucus. if you look at the history of iowa, it's a special electorate. on the republican side, tell me which candidate is garnering the first or second choice of the most conservative voter and/or the voter who is in church the most frequently. mitt romney is not the first or second choice of either one of those voters and those voters have a disproportionate impact on the iowa caucuses. just as we saw last time he going in neck and neck with huckabee and finishing second to

huckabee. >> iowa has a lot of volunteers coming into that state to try to get to the caucuses. >> these are the people who do the door-knocking and it is such a small group of people who actually end up going to these caucuses, that every door-knock counts. so he can count on reliable, younger people who are caught up in his campaign. whether it's the anti-war message, or the legalization of certain drugs, marijuana included. whether it's his small government message. whatever it is, he has attracted a good number of young people. let me just briefly say that also here on the ground, in iowa, what you hear from a lot of people is a little off from what cornell just said. they believe when you poll the evangelic evangelicals, while it is still very important to them, the matter of abortion, stem-cell research, that kind of thing, that also key and ranking higher to them in terms of importance, are matters of the economy. and something that the mitt romney campaign will point out

to you. i don't know who has the better chance at this point. we know that mitt romney is barely leading in the polls and he is here and playing very big at the end. >> rich, what do you make of michele bachmann saying that the paul campaign is paying off people or paying you know this member of her staff to jump ship. does that make any sense to you? >> it doesn't make any sense. but neither did sorenson's reason saying that ron paul was the most conservative person that could win this. i think any, most people would say that would probably go to santorum. but you know, you get involved in these things and that kind of stuff happens. you know representative bachmann is grasping at straws. i agree with cornell. this is certainly not the conversation you want to be having at the pizza plaza, wherever she goes in the last week of the campaign. wauth to be on your message, not message. going back to something else, another polling data point. in contrast to something that cornell was just saying, is that

generally speaking, that even, even the most evan jellically conservative iowa caucusgoers may not want romney as their first choice. but they certainly want barack obama as their last choice. and for a lot of these folks, going to the, going to their precinct tuesday night, that will be in their mind. i think they recognize that neither santorum nor paul has a great chance of beating president obama. but romney could get them there. >> and to my good friend this is exactly the sort of thinking that's sort of upsetting the grassroots. because you have the washington establishment pushing their candidate. and listen to what the guy who jumped ship said. he said he was jumping ship to fight for someone who was a conservative, who had a chance to win, there's a grassroots sort of effort and movement out there against romney, against the washington insider establishment candidate. >> and the obama campaign would love to run against ron paul or rick santorum. >> we love, we'll take on any of

the field. >> let me ask you, cornell, there's been a lot of focus on rick santorum's surge in iowa. he's still polling third place. toor a guy who has been living in iowa for the past year, he's spent a huge amount of time, his whole campaign has been focused on iowa, is third place enough to do anything? does he have life beyond iowa? >> if he comes in third place, which i'm by the way saying he's going to do better than what the polling is showing right now. from sort of his momentum and who his makeup of the caucus. if he does third in iowa, santorum is done. he's put everything, he went all in in iowa. the same wane that huntsman is going all an in in new hampshire. if he finish as distant third in iowa, time for him to go back to pennsylvania. >> rich, do you agree? >> no, i think, what he and gingrich both will do is to sort of wave at new hampshire by

participating in the debates. but head for south carolina, see if either one can stay alive through that. newt certainly can, he's got enough money. santorum can live off the land and i think whoever beats the other in south carolina, the loser goes home. >> i love your remark, living off the land. candy, cmag which tracks campaign data, released a breakdown of what political spots aired in iowa this month. they found will have half of the ads were attack ads aimed directly at newt gingrich. is this clearly textbook evidence that negative ads work? his numbers have dropped significantly there. >> absolutely. there's a reason people do negative ads, they work and they sink in. and that's why i think you have to be a little bit cautious about rick santorum's rise, he's been in all 99 counts, he's worked very hard. he's got precinct captains in most places. the real reason at this point

behind rick santorum's rise, is a, he's the only guy left who hasn't had his time for attention and b, newt gingrich fell. and we've seen this pattern throughout this year. you know, michele bachmann goes up and she goes down, rick perry comes up and then herman cain, so it follows the natural rhythm of this year. newt gingrich fell down and the limelight and support went to rick santorum. >> the one thing is that yet, all this keeps going up and down, but it never goes to romney. they're looking toor a candidate other than romney to land on. and right now, santorum is at the right place at the right moment. >> rich? >> the reason that gossip, that negative campaigns work is because like it or not, human beings love gossip and a 30-second negative ad is nothing more than highly distilled gossip. that's why it sinks in and sticks, people pay attention to it. everybody wishes it were different, but it's not different. >> rich, do you think it was malpractice for the gingrich

folks not to sort of defend themselves immediately to that? it boggles my mind why they would not. >> he didn't have any money. if they had any money they would have gone up with some kind retaliatory ads, there's no question in my mind. but the old saying, if the facts are against you, argue the facts. if the law are against you, argue the facts. if you have neither one, call the other guy names. >> thank you very much. the iowa caucuses five days away, we'll be covering it all. tune in at 7:00 p.m. eastern when our coverage begins. join us on facebook. follow us on twitter at @andersoncooper. coming up, a website that's been linked to sex crimes in the past, even child prostitution. is now a common thread, say authorities, in at least three murders in detroit. the website is called

backpage.com. they're not backing out about the content on its website. we'll talk to someone from the website. later, our exclusive look at the battle in homs, syria. holding soldiers at bay in one neighborhood in homs. we'll hear from the defectors themselves. lose one more by blocking some of the fat you eat. let's fight fat with alli. ♪ your new progresso rich & hearty steak burger soup. [ dad ] i love this new soup. it's his two favorite things in one... burgers and soup. did you hear him honey? burgers and soup. love you. they're cute. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup.

in crime and punishment, a disturbing twist in a story we've been following for a year. tonight police are investigating a link between escort adds placed on a website called backpage.com and three murders in detroit. police suspect a killer may be targeting escorts who have advertised online with that website. backpage.com reportedly takes in tens of millions of dollars each

career for its online ads for adult service and some of those ads have been linked to sex crimes, including child prostitution. officials at the website told us they are vigilant about monitoring the ads and promptly report potential abuses to the national center for missing and exploited children. law enforsment says criminals use these websites to target their victims a as tool to take a look. four women found dead in less than a week. their bodies stuffed in the trunks of cars. detroit police won't say it's the work of a serial killer. but they're alarmed by another pattern they've discovered. detroit police chief say three of the victims had posted escort ads on backpage.com. >> with the vast increase on the utilization of social media. we have to be vigilant about identifying websites. the first two victims were found in a car. at this abandoned house on december 19th. two more bodies were found on

christmas morning. backpage.com said it reached out to the detroit police when it heard about the deaths and are cooperating with the authorities. in a statement, the company says backpage has provided law enforcement authorities with computer, forensic or other evidence that shows that at least 70 different third-party ads or postings on 22 different websites appear to be or are potentially related to this investigation. we're not aware of any evidence that would indicate which of these 22 websites may have been used by the subject which established contact with his victims. police decline to say if they were looking into other postings. >> we felt it was imperative to alert the public that deciding to meet unknown persons via the internet can be extremely dangerous. we implore people to be careful. >> it's not the first time that backpage.com has been caught up in controversy. it's a classified ad service operated by village voice media. owner of a national chain of

alternative newspapers. last year under intense pressure, craigslist stopped taking ads for adult services. a firm that tracks online classified, the a.i.m. group said backpage.com generated $2.1 million from escort ads and body rub listings. the site earned more than $23.9 million from adult services ads according to a.i.m. critics say backpage.com is profiting from illegal activity and exploitation. >> we're frying to remove the adult section from backpage.com because it's a breeding ground for human trafficking. >> earlier this month, julian tarver pled guilty to raping and extorting sex from two 15-year-old girls he found on backpage.com. a man was convicted of of pimping out two underage girls. and yerler cnn spoke with a

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there's a counterargument to this which says isn't it better to have the ads on a site that does monitor to some degree? >> it's not better because the internet facilities and has facilitated the expansion of prostitution and has directly contributed to the growing rise of child prostitutes being marketed. >> thank you both. interesting discussion, let us know what you think on twitter @andersoncooper. the arab league is under pressure with one activist calling the oppression a mockery. are observers being shielded from the violence? or are they just not looking? or what's going on. plus, north koreans fall silent to honor their dead leader. scenes from a second day of national mourning, stunning scenes.

hey, let's look at other stories we're following. aisha is back with the 360 business. >> another day of mourning in north korea after wednesday's three-hour funeral for leader kim jong il. thousands of people assembled in pyongyang for a national memorial service for the late dictator. once again, the ceremony focused on kim jong un, the elder kim's son and chosen successor. with speeches calling him the supreme leader. more than one million people have visited the september 11th memorial in new york. less than four months after it opened. it's free to visit, but visitors must reserve a time on the memorial's website. a museum at the site is still under construction.

u.s. investors seem ready to end the year on a good note. stocks rose, spurred on by positive reports on housing, manufacturing and employment. the dow was up 136 points. and one collector will get a chance to own more than 5,000 artifacts from the "titanic" in the coming year. the owner plans to auction them off as a single lot. the collection is valued at more than $189 million and anderson, what you get for that kind of money? according to reports that i've seen. fine china and ship fittings. >> really? >> yeah. >> i had a relative who died on the "l umpb simpb "luisitania." >> i bought a postcard sent by somebody on the ship who also passed away and actually no, a passenger list that had my great uncle's name on it.

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up close on syria, an arab league fact-finding mission has done nothing to stop the bloodshed. some activists say it's a employ by president bashar al assad to buy time. the leader was head of foreign intelligence in sudan in the government which is now accused of genocide in darfur. so in addition activists say the observers are constantly guarded by syrian security forces and in every city, the arab league visited, activists reported more deaths, at least 35 in all.

this amateur video -- take a look. this amateur video show s soldiers firing at protesters. you can hear the protesters chanting god is great and freedom from bashar. assad's government won't allow international journalists into the country or to travel freely if they are in the country. one reporter got in, he snuck into the opposition's only stronghold. the single neighborhood in homs. we're not revealing his name. tonight more of his exclusive video from the front lines. we meet defectors from his video, from the syrian military who say they're no longer willing to shoot and kill their own people. >> in a neighborhood of homs, anti-assad fighters took me into a house where they were engaged in a shoot-out with snipers from the syrian military.

these men say they are all defectors from assad forces. they calm themself the free syrian army. one of the men managed to take a rifle with a precision scope with him when he defected. but most of the fighters from the free syrian army are ill-equipped short on guns and ammunition and with no heavy weapons. still, they have managed to kick assad forces out of the neighborhood and holded area. it's possibly the first place in syria beyond government control. at points like this mark the front line. >> translator: assad's troops are about 25 to 30 meters away from us with soldiers and tanks. we're here to prevent them from passing and killing young and old. >> the man introduced me to one of their leaders. abdul is one of the few willing

to be identified. he was a lieutenant in assad's army before defecting. his uncle is a former syrian defense minister. >> translator: we got orders notice army that went against my oath as a soldier. i had sworn to protect civilians. but when i saw what the government forces were doing to the people, i defected on june 2nd. >> people like abdul are heroes for the people of the neighborhood. he was cheered at an anti-government demonstration. but baba amar is surrounded by the syrian military and constantly shelled by tanks and artille artillery. in a meeting in a safe house, abdul insists that even though assad has not used his efforts against the uprising, only a no-fly zone imposed by the

international community could help the rebels win. >> translator: we are in contact with soldiers who are in the army. they tell us that a no-fly zone is essential to prevent them from getting bombs if they defect. >> for now, the man on the free syrian army are fighting a grurgrur guerilla war against an overpowering foe. they smuggle fighters in and out of the neighborhood they control, evading government checkpoints. at night they search everyone entering and leaving the area to stop government death squads. from getting in. >> translator: the street you see over there is controlled by the shabia, they are known to kidnap our women and children. we try to prevent this. from strangers come here, we stop and search them. >> the people of this part of homs are not afraid to take to the streets. there are regular nighttime

rallies, but after months of casualties, they have long lost their faith in nonviolent protests. >> in baba amur, many believe that real change in syria will only come from the barrel of a gun. >> a remarkable look inside homs. joining us is a senior fellow at stanford university's hoover institution. it's interesting, watching it it reminds me of the beginnings of the conflict in beirut back in the day where you have groups controlling neighborhoods. is this the start of civil war? >> this is neighborhood warfare if you look at it this is homs, the epicenter of the revolution. this is a divided city. when you're talking about baba amur, you're talking about an old sunni neighborhood. this has been a target of the assad regime. because this is the place where the free syrian army is making its stand. it's interesting the report we just listened to and watched.

there is a man named abdul razad, the defector, his uncle was one of the pillars of the assad regime. he was a companion of old man, hafiz assad, so it tells you of the splits within the elite and the fight for the new syria. >> a group like this, if the regime really wanted to move in with tanks and stuff, they could try to retake this neighborhood. >> i think that's exactly what is, look, we live in a world where nations dwell alone. i mean in fact we can look at say that the bosnians were saved in 1995. but they were saved after 30 months of bloodshed. they were saved after 150,000 people possibly were killed. the rue wand ans were never saved and now the syrians are in the crossfire. i think what thee this he have witnessed and know about their situation, is the solitude of the syrian people. because if you take a look at the geography of syria, the

geography of syria really favors the regime. when you think here is a country which has lebanon on one side, which is subordinate to syria, which has jordan on the other side, which is in a way, very, very wary of any intervention and they it has israel, which is very complicated relationship. then it has iraq. which is very sympathetic to the assad regime. then it has turkey. which has played cat and mouse with the syrian rebellion. it hints it will come in, but then it doesn't. so i think it's the recipe for a long, long war. >> anything that's going to happen? >> absolutely. this is where we are. the regime can't bury this revolution. the revolution can't overthrow the regime. when we look at the powers beyond, the international community has really been disgraceful. and the belief in the arab league has been such a sham. when you look at the sudanese general going to homs and saying he saw nothing frightening in homs. well, with all due respect, maybe his standards are the

darfur standards. >> i'm, this is what i just cannot believe that the guy who is head of the arab league delegation, works for a regime, the lead of which is wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity. >> absolutely. when you realize for example that this man was chosen to be the chief monitor, that he was picked by the syrians, because no other candidate was acceptable. and no other candidate really wanted this job. the lebanese wouldn't do it the saudis wouldn't want to do it. the egyptians, who normally would have done this kind of work are really out of contention, given their own troubles. so you come to the syrian henchman of the man wanted by the international criminal court. >> thank you very much, appreciate it. still ahead, the chilling 911 call made by a texas man who allegedly killed six members of his family and then himself on christmas day. and a driver's rampage through his neighborhood, amazing video, we'll show you.

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including his estranged wife and two daughters before shooting himself dead. "the wall street journal" reports that several employees of oil giant bp could face criminal charges stemming from the deep water horizon explosion. the paper says prosecutors are looking into whether they falsified information to regulators. and in colorado, police have arrested a driver they say intentionally rammed his suv into five cars, including this one. a security camera captured it. police say the driver also tried to run over several people. now back to anderson. coming up, change of the subject, something to make you smile at the end of the night. your choice of number two in the top ten ridiculous countdown of the year. i won't give it to you, we'll just surprise you with it. glucerna hunger smart shakes.w they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] new glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes.

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we've been counting down the top ten ridiculous of the year based on your votes. tonight number two is a cautionary tale about texting at the movies from back in june. take a look. >> tonight we're adding my latest source of annoyance,

people who talk and text at the movies. a woman was repeatedly warned to to stop texting at a movie in austin, texas, wouldn't stop and was thrown out. she left an angry voicemail to the theater which is posted on the blog for your enjoyment. >> your little crappy [ bleep ] theater. >> all right. did i mention that the theater is called the alamo draft house and that they serve beer? well i'm not surfy mentioned that, but indeed i think our texter may have partaken a bit. listen to more. >> excuse me for using my phone in usa the mag nighted states of america where you are free to text in a theater. >> i love living in the magnited where you are free to text in a theater. that's a lady who knows her constitution. what's all that freedom jazz if some drunk girl can't constantly update her facebook status. >> next the text lady employs

the silent but deadly defense. >> and it wasn't on silent, it wasn't on loud, it wasn't bothering anybody. you guys obviously were being [ bleep ] me. >> i'm sorry, drunk girl, texting in a dark theater are like lighting a road flare. you might not see it through your drunk goggles. a combination of the i didn't know defense, seasoned with the touch of the i do it everywhere else defense. >> i was not aware that i couldn't text in your theater, all right? i've texted in all the other theaters in austin. and no one ever gave a [ bleep ] about what i was doing on my [ bleep ] phone, all right? >> now maybe she has texted her way through every other movie theater in austin, i wasn't surprised but it turns out that this particular theater has a well-known no-tolerance policy. and they make all kinds of creative announcements about it.

watch. >> electric cattle prod with me, if i hear someone talking, i give them a quick, not an aggressive shock but just a light shock. >> my name is pedro sanchez, from "napoleon dynamite." if you vote for me, i'll make sure that everyone is very quiet during the theater. >> don't talk during the movies, turn off your cell phones and beepers. >> you can find out who they are and cut their tongue out. >> i think it's pretty clear where the alamo draft house stands on this issue. and maybe a theater with that kind of policy just isn't for everyone. >> you know, i will never be coming back to your alamo draft house or whatever. ed i'd rather go to a regular theater where people are actually polite. >> the regular theater are polite. the ceo of the alamo draft house says he wants his theater to be different. >> we want to take a hard stand

and say that those people are not welcome at the alamo draft house. we'll get rid of those people and make it a better place for the rest of the movie-going public. >> i think